The place was still within the boundaries.It was an intersection ahead. The body frame of the traffic lights there was quite big since it was not only regulating the intersection, but also the underpass beneath it. There, on top was Sandro Smith laughing. When Agatha regained clarity of her mind, looking back to the crazy attacker who just suddenly popped out of nowhere, the first thing that she wondered was not how he appeared here.'Am I his next target?'Panting so hard and audibly, she roamed her eyes around to check how many people were in the surroundings and if her driver was still alive. Not long after, her gaze flickered back to the person now jumping down to the road.Aside from getting some bruises and cuts on her skin, she was fairly safe and did not get caught in the fire and explosion. Her driver was alive, only his forehead and right arm were bathed in crimson, bleeding due to some long cuts and gashes there. It was not the case with the people nearby her car though.S
Paul had already dealt with all the troubles Fred Moore had caused him, using Conrad's name as a shield to everyone not content with everything he had decided. Those not still resigned to his resolution received his deadly glares, his assistant Dylan silently writing down the name of the stupid people to his blacklist, the one which would be then forwarded to the head of the McArthney family.This means that not only Paul's group of companies would be ending their ties with these people, but the whole of McArthney Corporation.Right now, the problems the two unpredictable hosts brought him were already enough. He didn't want any other anymore, therefore, those businessmen who didn't want to back down, thinking this was their chance to step down on him or milk him out of some favor or benefits, he just nipped their ambitions in the bud by terminating all relationships the McArthney had with them.These people would hear about it later, but once they do, Paul was sure that they'd bang t
If you're thinking she's under an illusion, I would have loved to play along but I'm sorry, your guess is incorrect."It was the same baritone voice, but unlike its usual crazy tone laced with both anger and madness, it was unbelievably calm, so foreign and distant that it sent shivers down Paul's spine.'You...'Recognizing what the words of the other man who just popped out of nowhere implied, Paul badly wanted to tear the person in front of him into pieces even if he was the only remaining blood-relative of Agatha."...Why are you still doing this? Haven't I've shown you enough proof that I won't die and can be enough of a helper to her?"Such a stupid father who only knew how to bring chaos and heartbreaks to his daughter and the people around her. May the gods forgive him for asking, but why does someone like him exist? Since he was so high-ranking, how come he didn't know that after he abandoned her, Paul was currently his daughter's only pillar of support?Fred, still dressed i
"I was sent by no one!" He firmly replied. He had every justification to mix anger in his tone as he was wrongly accused.Fred looked away from him, his eyes resting upon the crying figure of his daughter. It had been three months since he last saw this girl, and he could see that many things changed about her. The eyeglasses were gone, even though she has his shape and color of the eyes, her looks now greatly resembled her mother, especially with her complexion being so fair. With good quality clothes on her back, her whole body was giving off a noble aura far from the ordinariness that it used to emit to everyone.His daughter had grown into a big beauty within three months, but this beautiful girl was currently begging the medical staff that rushed over from an ambulance that had just arrived. With tears rolling down her pale and almost bloodless cheeks, she grabbed the arm of the first medical personnel she caught sight of and repeatedly shouted to save the
"Lad, are you really a non-host?"Fred's gaze went back to him, Paul stayed quiet and listened."Normal Level 9s won't be able to hurt you. All we can do is trap you in this kind of realm. If we don't, you'll probably then be able to practically walk away with anything in the real world. With all these capabilities, aren't you the best assassin to kill immoral hosts? Who made you? No, you have real records since birth. No clone has a real-life account, I'm referring to people's histories that existed and could be dug by the system.... So I'm thinking you could only be someone under another high-level host like me. So who is it again?""Didn't I already tell you that I'm not a spy sent by anybody?""So if you are from the past or the future, who, then, is the stupid Level 10 fool who used one of his hard-earned wishes to send a mere non-host back in time?"Paul wanted to tell the name so he could shut the man up, but something co
Every life has equivalent karma.So it just makes sense that every death has too.In fact, sometimes, the latter was in a sense, worse than the former, as it never fails to repay all debts and keeps no calendar when claiming its dues. 'You reap what you sow.' There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.Agatha was not and would never be included in the list of exceptions.'I was not even properly warned... No, I don't even want to imagine this possibility... Why? Why can't it just lash back directly at me?'Agatha had long known that she would receive retribution soon for taking so many lives these past two months. Christine's father, those prisoners, the city mayor, Maurice's mafia men... It seemed their souls were already haunting her down so fiercely that their accumulated resentment had reached the point of claiming the lives of her
A glittering pair of eyes swept around the place, alertly watching out for any signs of irregularity. Though unfortunately, it seemed the heavens were not on her side today as she had yet to catch sight of any of that.'Damn! Is the person here?' The one who spoke this irately in her head was hiding behind the low front porch walls of the cafe near the footbridge. Her location was well-concealed, and within the most appropriate distance to observe
Long ago, about... okay, not really long ago, but just within the century... Some intelligent normal people believing in either Astrology or the Supernaturals made a claim that the world was composed of many layers. They said that the Earth was filled with more wondrous places than those in the acclaimed ever-changing list of The World's Seven Wonders.Some of the most notable was, the city of Atlantis so advanced and modern than all of the places in the world of its most splendorous time combined, thought to have sunk deep into the ocean together with its high-specie inhabitants.Ophir, the land of gold, silver, sandalwood, pearls, ivory, apes, and peacocks mentioned as the wealthiest city of old in the core texts of the biggest and most widespread religion in the world.The phantom Aurora Islands said to be where mermaids were last sighted a couple of centuries ago.Sodom and Gomorrah, the two widely known cities of the ancient times said to be purged t